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Road Mishaps
Participation in cremations his first call of duty
Industries Dept to explore Shimla, Sirmaur for mineral deposits
Irrigation project awaits Railways nod
Concern over less enrolment in govt schools
He gave up govt job for farming
Himachal diary
80 plus but still in pursuit of creativity
Road Mishaps
Palampur, March 9 Every third day a road mishap is reported from the state. According to official figures, over 150 persons have lost their lives in different road mishaps in the past six months. Though the government is well conversant with the situation that 98 per cent of the total population of the state is dependent on road transport, the safety of passenger has completely been neglected. Since the situation is quite alarming, the state government has been forced to constitute a high-level panel to distribute quick relief to the accident victims. Instead of initiating corrective measures like improvement and widening of roads, keeping check on roof travelling and overloading in buses, banning the use of cellphones by drivers, the government had anticipated that because of rise in vehicles in the state in future, the rate of accidents could go up, therefore the formation of relief panel was necessary. Perhaps, the Himachal Pradesh was the only state in the country which had Accident Relief Panel. The government spends over Rs 2,000 crore in construction and maintenance of roads in the state per year. Still the condition of most of the internal roads is worst. Though there has been manifold increase in light and heavy vehicles in the state in the past five years, no efforts were made to improve the roads accordingly. The width of most of the internal roads is same as it was 30 years ago. The government has announced
various steps for the widening of roads, but little improvement has been done in this field so far. Even the condition of national and state highways is no better. In the absence of political will, most of the road projects initiated under the Central government plan or state sponsored have been hanging fire. Rampant corruption prevailing in the State Public Works Department is one of the major factors for delay in the completion of road projects. According to official sources, 63 road projects launched under the PMGSY or other central-sponsored schemes have been either left halfway or delayed because of the lukewarm attitude of PWD officials. According to official figures, in the past eight years over 5,320 persons in the state have lost their lives in different road accidents, while over 45,320 were injured. Another factor responsible for sharp increase in accidents in the state is attributed to rampant corruption prevailing in the licencing wing of the Regional Transport Authorities. No proper procedure is followed while issuing driving licence. In fact, licences are not issued but sold. It is alleged that at present, Rs 10,000 to 15,000 is charged for issuing a driving licence for heavy vehicles. Almost after every accident, the government orders probe, but no follow-up action is taken on such reports which remain confined to files and ultimately thrown into dustbin. |
Participation in cremations his first call of duty
Bilaspur, March 9 Belonging to a poor Brahmin family and residing in Raura Sector of Bilaspur town, the white bearded and traditional white boat-cap wearing Shyamu would immediately rush to the cremation ghat at the very first honk of the "shankha", a natural trumpet made up of shell, announces death in a household . Within minutes, he is at the shamshaan ghat, taking charge of the cremation of the body, without making any distinction, whether it belongs to a minister or a pauper. He fixes his own duty till the entire body is completely turned into ashes. It does not matter whether it is dead of night, shivering cold or scorching sun, he is there to help all. Sometimes, particularly during the winter nights, he is all alone with nobody to accompany him and would only return home after the job is completed . "Sometimes I have to go hungry as I have to rush to the call of duty whenever a "shankha" is honked," he adds. The best part is he neither charges anything for this service nor accepts anything, which distinctly separates him from the historical and legendary Raja Harish Chandra who had to charge a specific tax on directions of his master for the same job. A man of few words and a soft spoken old man, he invariably and consistently but courteously refuses all financial payments or any favours as a charge for this unique service. The Himachal Pradesh State Journalists Federation had spotted his selfless services to the society and, as a goodwill gesture of recognition of his selfless services, has fixed him an annual pension of Rs 5,000 and got him honoured in its annual conference from the Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal recently at Bilaspur town. Dhumal was so impressed by his services that he announced an award of Rs 10,000 for him on the spot. "I was in my youth and I used to catch huge logs in the Satluj during floods in the old town of Bilaspur. One morning I jumped into the river with my "Sanahi" (an inflated and air filled goat- skin used for swimming then) and caught a log and carried it ashore. But to my amazement, I found that with this log was tied the body of a young woman with a dead child clinging to her breast," he reminisces. "That was the turning point in my career. This moving scene shocked me and changed my view of life and death and I consigned the two bodies to the flames and decided to do the job all my life as a humble service," he concludes. |
Industries Dept to explore Shimla, Sirmaur for mineral deposits
Shimla, March 9 It was at the behest of state Industries Department that the Central Geological Programming Board of the Union Ministry of Mines granted approval for undertaking prospecting of limestone-dolomite bands in the Renuka-Sarahan area of Sirmour district and search for quartzite in Rampur area of Shimla district. The mapping done by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) earlier has indicated the presence of limestone-dolomite and quartzite deposits in these belts. Till now, quartzite was being obtained from boulders collected from the river beds in Una district and being sent to glass industry. Since the Ministry of Mines has accepted our proposal, we will shortly start work along with GSI experts to assess the viability on the basis of qualitative and quantitative analysis of these deposits, said Arun Sharma, state Geologist. He added that the procedure involving steps like chemical and pit sampling and drilling would indicate if it would be a viable project. Experts said in case presence of calcium oxide was more than 46 per cent and magnesium less than four per cent then the minerals could be used in cement industry. At present, the belt between Sarahan-Renuka in Sirmour district has no industrial units and in case mineral of high quality is found in this region, the locals would stand to benefit immensely, both directly as well as indirectly. Even though there is a big question mark over the mining of limestone and dolomite in various areas of Sirmour district bordering Uttarakhand but the fact remains that this has greatly helped in uplifting the rural economy, which, otherwise was solely dependent on subsistence farming. The extraction of quartzite will be viable only if it has up to 99 per cent silica as only then there would be demand for it in the glass industry, said Sharma. The geological wing is keen to undertake prospecting of the minerals in the potential belts as this will help create employment opportunities for the locals as Himachal has very little industry and that too confined to the fringes. It is felt that in case the deposits are of high quality the people of the region would benefit, thereby creating ample employment opportunities. Even though the prospecting might take up to three years but in case the outcome is positive, the possibility of setting up cement plant in the Sarahan-Renuka area and sending quartzite to glass industry would be feasible. Though there was iron-ore extraction in the Lana Cheta area near Rajgarh area by the erstwhile rulers of Sirmour state but since it was not economically viable it could not be taken up on a large-scale. |
Irrigation project awaits Railways nod
Nurpur, March 9 The Irrigation-cum-Public Health (IPH) Department, which is executing this ambitious project, has failed to get permission for laying 537-m portion of the irrigation canal near Jawali as this canal has to cross through land belonging to the Railways. The work on the project was started in 1997 from Dehar Khud to the Sidhatha area with an estimated cost of Rs 66.35 crore. With its commissioning, 3,150 hectares will get irrigation facility and bring about green revolution in the area. The construction of about 13.5-km irrigation canal is to be completed by the end of this month, but it seems unlikely. The project earlier faced fund scarcity and it is now awaiting permission from the Railways for completion. Meanwhile, inordinate delay in the commissioning of the project has dismayed farmers of the area who are dependent on rain for their crops. RK Jaryal, superintending engineer, said the department had been trying to get permission from the Railways and the matter had also been brought to the notice of the state government. He confirmed that the construction of canals portion on railway land and a 935-m tunnel was pending. IPH Minister Ravinder Ravi informed that the government was working for early commissioning of the project and Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal himself had raised the issue with the Railways. |
Concern over less enrolment in govt schools
Kangra, March 9 PC Vishekarma, state president, and Atul Vadiaya, general secretary of the HP Government Senior Secondary School Principals and Education Officers Association, said there was a 30 per cent fall in the rolls of students in government schools from Class I to XII during the past two years. They said the government must introduce English medium of instruction from class I, besides furnishing the classrooms. The rationalisation of teaching staff should be a regular exercise so that teachers in every subject remain available, they said, adding that all vacant posts must be filled and teacher-pupil ratio should be maintained at 1:35. They said the teachers needed training so that quality education could be imparted to students. They suggested that computers, projectors etc must also be introduced in all government schools for better education. |
The new avatar of The Gaiety hummed with plays from Mandi, Kullu, Shimla, Solan and Sirmaur recently. The credit goes to the Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi for arranging this confluence in which the State Academy played a collaborative role. 'Rang Pratibha', the festival of six plays, was organized to discover the talent of young directors. The festival revealed that serious theatre was not the monopoly of Shimla only and the groups in other districts too were emerging fast to compete with those of Shimla. The two Shimla groups preferred the Hindi versions of the classics - 'Men without Shadows' by Jean Paul Sartre and 'The tragic history of Dr. Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe. Both these plays are difficult to produce and the commitment with which they were performed hinted towards maturing of theatre here.
The State Department of Language and Culture incurring little expenditure can send select young directors to the metropolitan cities to witness the plays whenever a festival is organised there. Their interaction with other directors, who are in the mainstream drama, will mean a lot of good for the theatre's health here. There were three observers for the festival from outside the state---Balwant Thakur, an exponent of body theatre from Jammu; Surya Mohan Kulshreshta, an authority on Sanskrit theatre from Lucknow and Baharul Islam, a recognised folk and modern theatre expert from Guwahati. Every morning, these experts discussed various shades of the performed play with the director and the cast while the select few from among those who had seen the play the past evening could also butt in to put across their points of view. The idea was to remove the cobwebs wherever those existed in the production. Dramatic licence was visible in quite a few plays when the director's vision took him to fanciful flights. In 'Hararat', a play from Mandi, a blurred image of a speaking child in the womb was shown by using coloured curtains and masked men; in Kullu's 'Bhagwan ka Poot', Himachali folk dance steps were exquisitely used to depict various movements of the characters and in Dr. Faustus, the good angel, as portrayed by Marlowe, was shown as the soul of Faustus because the director cleverly used the licence to convey that the human body gets polluted but not the soul which is the reflection of the God. The talented directors Manjit Manna from Mandi; Rupesh Nandan and Kedar Thakur from Shimla; Durgesh Pandit from Solan; Zoheb Yusufzai from Nahan and Kehar Singh Thakur from Kullu were selected by a team of senior theatre men of Himachal. It was a nice job done by the selection committee headed by known dramatist Ashok Hans. Commenting on the festival, Balwant observed that it was revelation for him to see that not only of Shimla but girls from other districts also had started accepting quite bold roles and portraying those without inhibition on stage and that gave credence to the fact that the hill society had broken the shackles of a traditional and closed mind-set. Kulshresta felt that Himachal theatre could be compared well with that of any other state and if a little exposure was given to the directors, they would do wonders. Kiran Bhatnagar of Sangeet Natak Academy, an alumnus of the National School of Drama and an actor of repute, was highly satisfied with the standard of theatre in the sate. Shimla, during the British times, was known as the 'Mecca of Theatres' and time has come again that the restored Gaiety, with its three stages, consistently vibrates with activities like Tagore of Chandigarh, Kamani of Delhi and Prithvi of Mumbai.
The Gaiety had no electricity till 1896 and a couple of guards were engaged for proper lighting with lamps on the passages. One evening an officer found that four lamps had snuffed out. He asked 'Why?' from the babu incharge who replied in the best of his English, "Lampings are bujhanging by the hawa/ Nithalla guards are lying beparwah." |
He gave up govt job for farming
Hamirpur, March 9 Today, he owns a successful vegetable and dairy farm set up in his native village and provides fresh vegetables, milk and its products to students of Bhareri College, besides selling these in the market. Before taking up this occupation Rajesh was working as a physical education teacher in a government school. With his inherent desire to work independently, he had left the job and started vegetable production on a small piece of land comprising 35 kanal. By adopting new techniques and diversification in agriculture, he is successfully growing ginger, garlic, onion, tomatoes and turmeric, etc. Keeping in view the irrigation needs, he also got two wells bored in his land through which he is irrigating the crops and also fulfilling the requirement of potable water. Three years ago, Rajesh also started dairy farming and today he owns 15 buffaloes and a cow. To continue his interest in the field of education, he also started a physical education college named Meharram Dutta College of Physical Education at Bhareri. Presently, more than 150 students from throughout the state are studying in this institution. For his achievements in dairy farming, Rajesh Sharma was honoured by the Animal Husbandry Department and given a cash prize of Rs 10,000. Happy with his success he wants the other unemployed youths of the area to take up such activities at home. He says, "They should have faith in their capabilities and draw full advantage of the schemes like Pundit Deen Dayal Bagwan Samridhi Yojana and Dugdh Ganga Yojana launched by the state government. Rajesh is earning about Rs 20,000 per month from these activities and tells, any body having about 3 kanal of land could earn Rs 10,000 to 15,000 per month by growing vegetables using modern techniques. |
Himachal diary
Belatedly though the Shimla Municipal Corporation has decided to construct parking lots in various localities for the vehicle owners to help ease traffic congestion caused due to roadside parking of vehicles.In all additional parking spaces will be created for about 500 vehicles. As many as 14 sites have been identified for the purpose which include Engine Ghar in Sanjauli, Majitha House in Chhota Shimla, Nabha. Most of the residential houses in the state capital are built on slopes and not connected with roads. Even those approachable by roads have not cared to spare space for parking vehicles, what to speak of garages etc. Worse, garages in some newly constructed buildings are being used as stores or servant quarters. Some builders have sold out flats but retained the garages that are being used for other purposes. Similarly, landlords do not allow tenants to use the garages. The corporation has already invited expressions of interest for four big parking complexes to be constructed at Sanjauli, IGMC Hospital and the Lift, which will have capacity for 1500 vehicles. Besides, three more parking projects are being planned the biggest of which will come at the bypass bifurcation at the entry point of the city Insider and outsider debate
Himachali and non-Himachali has not been a major issue in the hill state but politicians of various hues have been raising the bogey of "outsider" to suit their convenience from time to time. The race for the Rajya Sabha ticket for the lone seat falling vacant later this month has revived the debate and, in fact, the candidature of Satya Pal Jain, in charge of BJP affairs in the state, has not found favour on this ground. While Jain is indeed an outsider, even those living in the state for generations were being dubbed so to undermine the prospects of rivals. If this yardstick is applied more than half the people of the state would fall under the category of outsiders, particularly as large parts were merged into the state during the reorganisation of Punjab. The instant target of the outsider campaign is BJP's state organising secretary Mohinder Pande whose father joined service in the Education Department in 1952 and retired as a deputy director in 1990. He has been living in the state all through. Similar has been the case of Anand Sharma who has been sent to the Rajya Sabha twice and has done the state proud by his excellent performance as a minister in the UPA regime. Earlier, Another Rajya Sabha member from the state, Usha Malhotra, whose husband retired as the PWD engineer-in-chief, also fell in the same category. Besides two rank outsiders, Mohinder Kaur and Krishan Lal Sharma, were also sent to the House of Elders from the state. State Congress general secretary Harbhajan Singh, who has represented the Shimla Assembly seat twice, and BJP leader Ganesh Dut, who unsuccessfully contested from Shimla in 2003, also fall in the same category.
Lecturer pens book on hill
A political science lecturer's penchant for fact and figures and deep interest in history and culture has given birth to "Himachal Pradesh - A Himalayan Dreamland", the most complete book of information on the hill state till date. Currently teaching at Government College in Sunni Dr Rajender Attri has indeed put in a painstaking effort in collecting wide-ranging facts covering every aspect right from the early history dating back to 4000 BC to the present stage. The voluminous 1005-page book spread over 44 chapters provides valuable information about history, culture, social life, flora and fauna, rivers, lakes forests and other natural resources, economic activity, tourists destinations and even existing and proposed hydro-electric projects. A notable feature is that the information has been organised in most reader-friendly and accessible manner. Geographical information includes details of famous peaks (41 peaks) and high mountain passes (62 passes) with altitude and location, important institutes, temples with the names of founders and important legislations (136 up to 2008) enacted by the Vidhan Sabha. A section is devoted to district-wise facts and figures which include population density, literacy rate, sex ratio and other salient features. "It has taken more than five years to collect and organise the material and produce the book", says Attri who hails from Snora village in Rajgarh. A native of Sirmour district he was greatly influenced by Dr YS Parmar, founder of Himachal Pradesh, and his first work was, in fact, the biography of the state's tallest leader. The latest book will serve as a useful compendium not only for all those appearing in various competitive examinations but also for administrators and planners. (Contributed by Rakesh Lohumi) |
80 plus but still in pursuit of creativity
Shimla, March 9 Blending imagination with technique he has exploited the creative scope of the two mediums to give vent to the artistic urge within and explore the aesthetics of the external world to the full. Not only that the Shimla-based artist has been gifted with enviable film-making skills. In fact, one of his major achievements has been the National Award that he won for the documentary featuring the 1982 Asian Games. Despite his mastery over both camera and canvas Sarju has remained an "unsung" hero. "The most unfortunate part of his life is that his invaluable contribution in the field of arts has not been duly recognised" points out Sheffali Aavishkar Ranjan in her research work entitled 'Sarju Prasad -A veteran artist of Himachal Pradesh'. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth Sarju renounced the material luxuries for the sake of art. The journey from his birthplace Ghazipur, a nondescript village in UP, to Shimla has been full of ups and downs. His penchant for photography stemmed during his student days when he excelled in the subject of art and passed out with flying colours. As his performance in other subjects was below par, the course of his career and life was chalked out. After formative education at Victoria High School, Ghazipur, Sarju went on to study graphic arts first at Lucknow Arts College and subsequently at Morwin Arts College, Shimla. However, his talent bloomed under the patronage of the then Lieutenant-Governor Bajrang Bahadur Singh Bhadri ,who along with his wife, Girija Devi, treated him as their son. Not many know that Sarju Prasad's first exhibition was inaugurated by the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, who found his paintings "very nice and appealing." His well-known exhibition 'Study of Feminine Faces' at Shimla was inaugurated by the then President of India, Dr. Zakir Hussain, who found the pictures strikingly good. This exhibition brought to the fore Prasad's refined photojournalistic style that combined a unique sensibility with technical capability to tell the story with spontaneity and novelty. Another feather in his cap is the award conferred on him on August 15,1999, by the then Governor, Rama Devi, for his sincere and dedicated services in the field of art, filmmaking and photography. His oil paintings depicting village life of the tribal region bring out the grandeur of mountains. One of his paintings--"Devil Dance"--depicts the Lamas performing the Chham dance with the mountains of Spiti forming a breathtaking backdrop. Even in the era of cameras with slow shutter speeds he was able to venture well beyond the confines of the studio. His well-composed photographs record the array of feelings written on the human face, the immaculate beauty of the earth and sky. Professionally he also clicked Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and many actors of Hindi Cinema of that time. He also specialises in miniature paintings and has authored a book on miniature paintings. In his leisure time, he sings ragas and bhajans. In the twilight years, he still possesses the same joie de vivre and enthusiasm, which could make any adolescent envy him. He can still be seen moving around with his camera. |
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That would be cool. Two Ivy League QBs on the same roster. Maybe we could pull Jay Fiedler out of retirement to be the third stringer and make it a trifecta
If we go 9-7 we might as well hire this guy to run our team cause we're going nowhere. Seriously, if we dont go 10-6 or better and make the playoffs, Im gonna go freaking insane. That would have made it 10 years without a playoff win, WTF did we do to deserve that?
So we could have been 12-4 in your scenario, but we're not because we're still making the same mistakes? No good, fire Munch at that point. We dont need to be perfect, our players need to realize that, no team is perfect, youre going to miss plays, that happens, but they can't panic. I've recently re-watched most all our games, and the constant theme in most of our losses was we rushed things, panicked as if we're not getting another shot at points. A lot of those forced plays went in the other teams favor, can't keep doing that. I think thats something that naturally works itself out with repetition, but a 9-7 season to me means we aren't fixing those problems, and thats on the coach IMO if his players feel they have to make things happen. Munchak keeps telling Jake "dont try to do too much", so if Jake feels like he's still got to be the hero, the coaches have failed him. Somebody might say thats solely on the QB, but it's not. Rattle any QB, I dont care who it is, he's going to make bad plays.
Yea, I think 12-4 is a reach based on the qb play from last year. However I still hope it's reasonable after another year for locker and a more suitable offense. It's going to be interesting to see how this year plays out. Hopefully this isn't a huge issue with the offense sucking complete ass again. Locker showed some promise early in the season last year but I still saw a lot of mental mistakes as well as some ridiculous throws that shouldn't have been made. I've pretty much re watched the entire season as well. Probably 2/3 months ago. End of the season locker looked rough.
Yea really XO Nicky Minage has the most annoying voice and looks like Wesley Snipes in the face. WTF dude? Probably sporting a wang too. Reminds me of the tranny from Hangover 2. Mac did bang a tranny though so who knows. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2
Let me put 4 Mitch Petrus' in for you and see how you do. We literally had the most combinations at O-Line last year in the entire league, how can anybody do good under those circumstances?
I'm not saying there weren't legit excuses. I'm just stating the end of the year looked rough. The beginning wasn't amazing but showed a big difference than when the o line was broken and he was hurt.

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Guide To Uxmal Archaeological Park
About Uxmal
Uxmal (pronounced "oosh-MAHL") is said to be the most attractive of the archaeological sites; it should be included in any itinenary that proposed to visit to the major archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Uxmal was an important city, probably built around 700 AD, although inhabitants are thought to have lived in the area as far back as 800 BC—nearly 1,000 years before the city was built.
It is a mystery as to why a settlement was ever made here: there are no rivers or local sources of water, and no evidence that they once existed. One of the features of Uxmal are the Mayan chultunes (cisterns), which held water for the population to live from.
Chaac, the rain god, features prominently in much of the architecture's carvings—no doubt an important source of water for the people that lived here.
Within a 10 mile radius of Uxmal are four other smaller ancient 'towns' of Kabah, Sayil, Xlapak, and Labna. Together with Uxmal, these places make up the Ruta Puuc (Puuc Route), named after the hills in which these ruins are nestled.
Uxmal is a delightful archaeological site to experience. The rich green fertile land provides a perfect setting for some of the most magnificent ancient pyramids, building and temples of the ancient world. You can sense the history here as you walk around and gaze at the stunning architecture and majestic layout of this ancient city.
Key Attractions
The 120-foot high Piramide del Adivino (Magician's Pyramid) stands majestically above the other buildings, and a climb to its summit will reward you with spectacular views of the entire half-square-mile ancient city.
The Cuadrángulo de las Monjas (Nuns' Quadrangle) was believed to have been used for military purposes, perhaps an academy or palatial complex.
At the Palacio del Gobernador (Governor's Palace) you can admire the 300 foot-long facade described by one scholar as the finest structure in Uxmal.
Other attractions include the Juego de Pelota (Games Court) which is nowhere near as large or impressive as the one in Chichen Itza; Casa de las Tortugas (House of the Turtles), one of the smallest buildings, but quaint and interesting all the same and La Gran Piramide (The Great Pyramid), a 100-foot, 9-level structure adjacent to the Governor's Palace. As is the case with the Magician's Pyramid, those prepared to climb to the summit of the Great Pyramid will be rewarded with spectacular views.
Getting There & Around
By Air - The closest airport is in Merida. Further away, but in the same region, is the airport of Cancun. For detailed information about flights and flying, see the Mexperience guide to Air Travel in Mexico.
By Car - Uxmal is located about 40 miles southwest of Merida, and about 250 miles southwest of Cancun. From Cancun, take Highway 180 to Merida, and then connect to Highway 281 southwest from Merida toward Uxmal. From Merida, take the 281 heading southwest. Because of the limited public transport in this area, we recommend you rent a car (see below) to explore the region and especially the Ruta Puuc, if you are not taking a guided tour. Also see additional information about Driving in Mexico and Mexico's Toll Roads on Mexperience.
By Bus - Public transport is very limited in this area in comparison to other regions in Mexico, and most of the buses that pass-by Uxmal are tour groups on the Ruta Puuc. To explore this area independently, it's best to rent a car for your visit. For detailed information about bus transportation read the Mexperience guide to Bus Travel in Mexico.
Practical Information
Opening Days & Times: 7 Days a week; 8 am to 5 pm. Modest admission charges apply and there are concessions for students, children and seniors. On Sundays, admission is free for Mexican citizens and foreign residents (with proof of residency).
Other Nearby Sites: To avoid the tour bus crowds, consider staying overnight at a hotel in Uxmal archaeological park. There are several hotels immediately surrounding the Uxmal Archaeological park. Uxmal is an excellent base for travelers who want to experience the other significant archaeological sites in the vicinity which include: Kabah, Labna, Sayil, Xlapak, Mayapan and the caves, Grutas de Loltun.
Photography & Video: A permit is required if you want to use a tripod to take photographs at the archaeological site. A small fee is made for the use of hand-held video equipment. Read the section on Mexperience Mexico Essentials about Video & Photography at archaeological sites in Mexico.
Ideal Clothing & Footwear: Wear comfortable walking shoes with a non-slip sole; strong shoes, appropriate for climbing, if you plan to ascend the pyramids. Note: The Magician's Pyramid is especially steep and extreme care must be taken when climbing this pyramid. This region is very hot and humid year-round, so dress for sweltering weather - see Local Climate, below.
Travel Insurance: We recommend that you are adequately covered with travel medical insurance and/or travel assistance insurance when you are visiting Mexico. Read the Mexperience guide to Travel Insurance in Mexico for full details and links to specialist insurance suppliers.
Nearby Places & Attractions
Major Cities: Mexico City (closest)
Colonial Cities: Merida, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz
Nearest Beaches/ Resorts: Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen
Other Archaeological Sites: Chichen Itza, Coba, Tulum
Local Climate
Uxmal is swelteringly hot with drenching humidity. August through October is hurricane season in this part of the world - and the weather becomes more changeable and less predictable during these months. The rainy season is May through October; fierce afternoon rains last for 2-3 hours and clear in the evening. Dress in light clothes, and carry plenty of water and stay hydrated at all times. Wear high factor sun screen, take a hat and spray on some insect repellent to keep flying creatures at bay.
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No good deed goes unpunished; smashing the glass ceiling; the dollar rules the world
Activists are already moving 'from outrage to action' in fighting the Supreme Court's awful VRA decision.
John Nichols on a bipartisan resolution on Syria, Eunji Kim on LA's plastic bag ban
What could have provoked such massive protests against a soccer festival from the sport's most passionate fans?
Despite its DOMA decision, the recent rulings by the Supreme Court reflect a conservative majority bent on ignoring enduring inequality.
By refusing to give up on a done deal, Texas feminists showed us what the future of pro-choice activism looks like.
A resurgent protest culture fights back against Rahm Emanuel's austerity agenda.
The reform-minded senator talks tough, and she knows where the bodies are buried.
I leaned out when I should have leaned in. But the problem is about much more than individual women's choices.
Distrust and distortion occupy the distance between much of Turkey and the Kurds of Diyarbakir. Can they be overcome?
The architecture of the new World Trade Center buildings emphasizes that their business is none of ours.
Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, Jem Cohen's Museum Hours, Eliav Lilti's Israel: A Home Movie, Jerry Bruckheimer's Enemy of the State
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2001 SP Authentic Golf Box - Black Friday special!
Busted my box of 2001 SP Authentic Golf from the Black Friday special!
Got lots of Tiger Woods inserts, but my hits were: Gary Nicklaus SotT Auto (Jack's son) Joe Ogilvie SotT Auto and in the last pack: Tiger Woods TIGER Tour Swatch red tournament worn shirt!! (which means he wore it on a Sunday...) Any idea of what this could be worth??
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Nice job hitting the Tiger. The Tiger books low $100, high $200 but doesn't mention any shirt variations. For actual value you should try the completed auctions on Ebay. Some people may be trying to unload his stuff now for whatever reason. I personally couldn't pull the trigger on the 01 SPA because I remember when the boxes were under $40 and you are chasing pretty much one player in the set. For the Red shirt I only know about 01 UD Golf because the Red Shirt is valued at double the non SP shirt but I haven't personally seen any variations in 01 UD SP.
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Nice rip and a fun product to break, congrats!!! Only way to find real value is to list it and let it fly.
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I would grade if you think it'll get 9.5 or higher. You can always send it in and tell them not to grade it if it isn't 9.5 or higher. Either way don't sell it now with all that stupid media attention that's surrouding him right now. I would wait until he wins another major or if you can wait, wait until he breaks Jack's majors record.
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One million Australians are living abroad, with the majority employed in some capacity. Only a tiny percentage encounter difficulties like Hu's. Most experience the joys of immersing themselves within a new culture (that is, if you consider London to be a different culture, or a culture at all, for that matter). Others love mastering a strange language, or discovering the non-touristy secrets of an exciting city, while others don't care where they've gone since their goal has been to flee, not to see.
In a poll of 2,000 university students conducted by OneTest recently, 60 per cent of graduates said they plan on working outside of Australia at some stage during their career. Initially, this might provoke concern. If more than half of educated young workers head overseas, who'll be left to fill skills shortages made worse by an imminent wave of retiring baby boomers?
That problem is minor compared to the benefits we get with hundreds of thousands of young people exploring the world. When they come back, and most of them do, they return with bags of ideas, a refreshed attitude, heaps of ambition, and depending on where they've been, money.
Upon informing an American colleague of the high rate of graduates wanting to work abroad, he was blown away, certain that in the United States it would struggle to exceed the single digits. Which is kinda sad, actually. Or as he described Australia's situation, "Kinda cool, actually."
And so it is that we welcome the good news that's just been released by the latest Brookfield Global Relocation Report. Despite a reduction of 46 per cent in the number of international assignments during the financial crisis, employers are now more optimistic. Almost half of the companies surveyed expect their expatriate populations to expand in the year ahead. But rather than sending young workers, bosses are choosing to ship their older employees instead.
The survey revealed that China, India and Russia were the three most challenging countries in which to live and work, which isn't a surprise. In China, there are fierce laws and a lack of transparency. In India, there's chronic overcrowding. In Russia, there's a virtual autocracy. The risk associated with working in those countries is more pronounced than in the US or the UK where laws and customs are closer to what we have in Australia.
This brings us back to Stern Hu. His prison term is severe, especially when endured in a tough Chinese jail. But then again, you can't help but wonder what people are thinking sometimes. To commit a crime in China, knowing full well the harshness of their sentences, is baffling. I've got a distant relative who spent nine years in a Shanghai penitentiary for a theft charge. When he got out, he was unrecognisable. It's similar to people who smuggle drugs in Indonesia despite the massive media coverage of Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine. I just don't get it.
The government's Smart Traveller website contains stacks of tips on mitigating the risk when working overseas. These include:
- Familiarise yourself with employment conditions by talking to people who've worked in the country you're going to live in.
- When headed for a non-English speaking destination, undertake language training, even if it's just survival phrases.
- If you can't afford travel insurance, you can't afford to travel. When you're without cover, you're liable for all medical costs.
- Failing to obtain the right working visa beforehand may be a criminal act and could result in your detention or deportation.
- Leave copies of all your important documents with trusted people back home, just in case yours are lost or stolen.
Do all that, and you might avoid making it onto the front pages.
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I have moved to a new B&B as the gorgeous Prudy and John at Dreamcatcher were booked out so now I'm staying with the super chirpy and fun Paco at his B&B, La Dona Luz (right on the Plaza). Art runs through the veins of Paco's family. The B&B is a house inherited from his grandfather who was a painter and moved to the area in 1903.
I know I said it was an artist's mecca already, but that's almost an understatement. The area is so beautiful and inspiring to artists of all types (painters, sculptures, jewellers, potters, photographers etc etc) that it seems to only take one visit before the decision is made to move here.
That's what happened to Paco's grandfather. And his artistic talent has not skipped a generation. Paco's mother was an artist and made the beautiful Indian dolls in my sitting room, and both Paco and his brother are jewellers. Paco doesn't make jewellery any more as he's busy running the B&B but his brother still does and makes and sells it in the trading post shop his grandfather set up. But just because Paco's no longer a practicing artist doesn't mean he's stopped loving it, every single inch of this place is crammed with local art in every form you could think of, it's like being in a gallery, and in many ways better than visiting some of the galleries is the collection is so eclectic.
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Columbia residents will be able to buy beer and liquor earlier than usual on Sundays if the city council approves an ordinance designed to make city code comply with a new state law.
The council at its regular meeting Tuesday night will introduce the ordinance, which would allow stores to sell liquor on Sundays between 9 a.m. and midnight. Previously, state law prohibited Sunday liquor sales before 11 a.m.
State Rep. Vicky Riback Wilson, D-Columbia, voted in favor of Senate Bill 298, saying the new hours are a matter of convenience and fairness.
"The previous hours were a burden on stores because they had to block off certain items of merchandise," Wilson said. "If the products are legal, it doesn't make sense to have arbitrary hours to sell them."
Regeb Mavrakis, manager of Southside Liquor at 405 S. Providence Road, says the new law means very little to him. For about a year, Southside Liquor has not opened on Sundays.
"We are closed on Sundays to spend time with our family," Mavrakis said. "We didn't sell much on Sundays except for milk, bread, groceries and cigarettes. Rarely would someone buy liquor before 3 or 4 p.m."
Beverly Basnett, manager of the Break Time convenience store at 2402 Paris Road, is unsure whether the new law will have any effect.
"It's not going to make that much difference," Basnett said. "We don't do a whole lot of business on Sunday mornings anyway. Our business is usually better in the afternoon."
The city council will also consider several other amendments to comply with state law. Those include:
The council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in its chambers on the fourth floor of the Daniel Boone Building, 701 E. Broadway.


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The Argentinian league which was scheduled to start next week is unlikely to begin due to a major debt crisis that many of the Argentinian clubs are in.
Diego Maradona is worried ahead of Argentina's World Cup Qualifiers that the lack of football in Argentina could have a detrimental effect upon his sides chances. He stated, "I'm worried that the football isn't starting, that people are not reaching agreement, that Julio (Argentine Football Association president Grondona) isn't ... Continue Reading →


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dc.contributor.advisor | Sardegna, Veronica G. |
dc.creator | Moody, Joe William |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-21T15:18:38Z |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-21T15:18:43Z |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-21T15:18:38Z |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-21T15:18:43Z |
dc.date.created | 2010-12 |
dc.date.issued | 2011-02-21 |
dc.date.submitted | December 2010 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2272 |
dc.description.abstract | This report focuses on language transference between alphabetic (English) and logographic, non-alphabetic (Chinese) languages, with respect to the importance of phonemic awareness in literacy acquisition. Within large ESL/EFL classrooms, language learners from all cultures are taught in the same way. Instruction rarely caters for specific problems directly associated with L1 transfer or the learner's culture. The purpose of this report is not only to gain a better understanding of the differences in literacy acquisition between the two languages (English and Chinese), but also to assess the impact of this difference on Chinese children learning how to read in English. Research is examined that focuses on the role that phonemic awareness plays in the acquisition of English literacy and in the acquisition of Chinese literacy. The relationship between Chinese orthographic features and word recognition processing in English as a second language is explored as well as cross-language transfer of phonological awareness and its effect on English literacy acquisition. Pedagogical implications are also discussed on how to apply these findings to the classroom for instructors of English as a second language. |
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dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.subject | Phonological awareness |
dc.subject | Phonemic awareness |
dc.subject | Chinese |
dc.subject | ESL |
dc.subject | English as a second language |
dc.subject | Second language acquisition |
dc.subject | Orthography |
dc.subject | Literacy |
dc.subject | Language transference |
dc.title | The effects of L1 orthographic features and phonological awareness on Chinese speakers learning to read in English |
dc.date.updated | 2011-02-21T15:18:43Z |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Schallert, Diane |
dc.description.department | Foreign Language Education |
dc.type.genre | thesis |
dc.type.material | text |
thesis.degree.department | Foreign Language Education |
thesis.degree.discipline | Foreign Language Education |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin |
thesis.degree.level | Masters |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |


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A gazelle found in the Middle East and North Africa.
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- We halted at Soojalup for the night: here for the first time I saw the beautiful antelope known by the Arabs as the Ariel (Gazelle Dama).
Mid 19th century: from Arabic ῾aryal.
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2A series of six American and British satellites devoted to studies of the ionosphere and X-ray astronomy (1962–79).
Named after a fairy or spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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House music junkees, producers, DJs, and label owners from Leeds UK, Audiojack, are back with a hot release via their own label Gruuv titled These Days, with remixes from in demand producers Jimmy Edgar and Sacha Robotti. Audiojack continually impresses with everything they put out, which includes past releases on Get Physical, 20:20 Vision, OFF, Exploited, and Diynamic to name a few, and they keep churning out hits like it's cake. The original mix of These Days features a great spoken word vocal from Kevin Knapp, who expands on how record making and selling has changed throughout the years, and the effects its had on the industry in layman's terms. Insight from the old guard to the new guard, and a must listen no doubt.
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Nationality | Soviet |
Born | Krasnouralsk, Soviet Union |
8 July 1935
Died | 5 April 2010 Moscow, Russia |
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Selection | Civilian Specialist Group 3 |
Missions | Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18 |
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Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft. He also lectured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In 1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself. Between 15-24 September 1972 Vitaly Sevastyanov visited Zagreb, Jugoslavia.
After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the Salyut 4 space station, he was pulled from active flight status in 1976. He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Buran project.[1]
He was president of the Soviet Union Chess Federation from 1977 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1989.
During the 1980s he was the host of a popular television program on space exploration entitled Man, Earth, Universe.
In 1993, he left the space programme and was elected to the State Duma in 1994.
Sevastyanov, along with Alexey Leonov, Rusty Schweickart and Georgi Grechko established the Association of Space Explorers in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space.
He was awarded:
- Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Two Orders of Lenin
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
- State Prize of the USSR
- Lenin Komsomol Prize
- Honoured Master of Sport
- Order of the Nile (Egypt)
Sevastyanov died in Moscow on 5 April 2010,[2] aged 74.
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Released: Jun 01st, 2004
Running Time: 140
Director: Pierre Woodman
Company: Hustler Video
Sharka, Aisha, Agotoa, Others, Irina (I), Lizette, Sarka
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: All-Sex
Woodman\'s rep may be enough to carry this title past your financial finish line.
That it took Pierre Woodman this long to stumble is a testament of sorts, but Mistress Burnout is patient - and she has a notoriously long reach. Expect in XXX 23 a loose stew of intimate interviews and fictional scenarios congealing in a pool of half-assed directorial interest.
As always, the Euro-babes are pretty and the swinging dicks long as a summer day; but they're about as committed as Britney Spears on a Vegas honeymoon. In one scenario called, "I Like to Suck," one might [rightly] expect some kind of oral carnival. Instead the girl barely puts lips to cock - and when she does, with considerable ineffectiveness. Elsewhere, a gorgeous California-looking blonde headlines a scene located in a print shop. Pressed by two horny printers, it soon becomes apparent that anal sex is news to her. Try as they might to set her ass right, these uncut studs slip in and out of their own sheaths more than her evasive ink pot.
A quarry-bound closer pits three guys digging a d.p. tunnel with a different chick, but the results appear less than a labor of unbridled lust. Only the segment featuring Sarka (Sharka? Schmarka?) revs up the Woodman of old. The hired beefcake plows his partner's fields fore and aft, settling on the upside-down-reverse-crab position to deposit his viscous load.


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Barbara Weaver's latest campaign to return to the Boone Hospital Center's board of trustees will be an easy one. In fact, it's already over. The filing deadline for what was supposed to be an April 5 election was Jan. 18. Since Weaver was the only candidate who filed, there will be no election. The same phenomenon occurred last year, when Greg Steinhoff also won a five-year term without challenge.
"There is no election because only one person filed," Boone County Clerk Wendy Noren said.
Weaver said she was surprised no one else had filed but thinks it was due to a lack of hot topics before the board.
"I don't think there are any burning issues out there that people are concerned about," she said.
Boone Hospital Center is privately owned by BJC HealthCare of St. Louis, though the five trustees are elected by Boone County voters. The board oversees the hospital's long-term plans and monitors a lease agreement on the building, which is owned by the county.
Weaver has been a board member since 1981 and said she keeps coming back to the board because of her interest in health care. Weaver is also a member of the BJC Finance Committee and the BJC Board of Directors.


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Sunday, January 20, 2013 1 comments Today's SparkCoach challenge is to eat on a schedule. For example today would probably be breakfast at 8, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. If I'm hungry in between maybe a snack at 10, 2, and 7. I've done a similar things before. Liked and ... Read more


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Eleanor Roosevelt Visits Santa Cruz: This photo was a real surprise. The great first lady was here in Santa Cruz on April 26, 1962, and this photo was taken up at Deer Park in Rio Del Mar. I have no idea why she was here, who brought her here and so on. Being an out-of-the-way place, Santa Cruz has had few visiting big-name political dignitaries over the years. Usually their visits were recorded everywhere, but being Eleanor, she might not have wanted to make a big scene.
NOT ANOTHER NAVY SHIP! It's unbelievable that "a committee of community members" (according to the Sentinel) has invited another warship to Santa Cruz, even though this ship could be carrying nuclear weapons, and the Navy won't say whether it is or not. Remember, too, that Santa Cruz has been declared a nuclear-free zone, and this is one of the reasons why that declaration was passed. Note that the invitation wasn't for some other type Navy ship with a peaceful use but for a killing ship designed to track and destroy targets in the air, on the ground and underwater with torpedoes, deck guns and missiles.
What adds to the problem is that misguided officials in Capitola and Scotts Valley are also asking their City Councils to support this warship visit. Why would anyone want to see or especially want their children to see mass-murder weapons that we use in every case around the world where our attempts at peace fail? Can't we just show hospital ships or cargo ships or make some attempt to show another side of our military to justify our enormous expenditure of money and lives?
Yes, I know that the military personnel on duty should be thanked for dedicating their lives and all that, but let's hide those murder machines, not glorify them. I'm sure there will be demonstrations and resistance to this; the inviting officials know there will be, and it's somehow as if that must be part of the plan. The last time one of those warships was here, it dumped lots of pollutants in the bay. Somebody should make sure this won't happen again. You can call the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 423-1626 to help become part of the protest. In case I haven't mentioned it before, I'm a U.S. Army veteran.
REWRITING HISTORY. Eric Fingal of Covello & Covello Photography was first, then accordionist extraordinaire Julio Morgani was second, in pointing out that the two young Miss California contestants in last week's historical photo were high atop the Palomar Hotel, not the St. George, as I erroneously stated. You could tell because right behind and beneath them was the town clock in its original location on top of the Odd Fellows Building. That clock was removed and stashed over at Harvey West Park for years before being refurbished and erected as our present town clock in 1976.
LATE-BREAKING NEWS. I just got word that Meredith Marquez, senior planner for the city, resigned quite suddenly. Inside sources say it had something to do with the Borders problem, and that's all I know for now.
WIDENING OUR VISION. Bill Nichols of KUSP's The Film Gang and UCSC's film department loaned me a PBS video documentary titled Taken for a Ride. It was directed by Jim Kline, who did other great films, such as Union Maids and Seeing Red. Taken for a Ride is about the buying out of numerous public transportation systems by General Motors, tire manufacturers and gas and oil companies. Their plan, which worked all too well, involved allowing the trolley trains and bus systems to fail by neglect and lack of funding. In a very few short years, we the peoples of the United States were forced to become absolutely dependent on our cars. This film convinced me that we need much more public transportation, and we need our perceptions changed too. Demanding faster travel on our freeways and creating more out-of-downtown shopping areas are all part of that way of thinking. We need to get Taken for a Ride shown on Community Television or on TCI asap. And we need to make it mandatory viewing for everyone who wants to spend millions on widening Highway 1. The proposed widening won't help beyond a few years--we're just buying into more development. Spend some of the money on road maintenance but bring back light rail into the county. It worked here before we ripped out all the tracks. I'll let you know when this film will be shown.
SOME FINE FILMS. If you haven't seen a film that makes you miserable and very depressed or if you're not quite convinced that war has a devastating effect on life go see Cabaret Balkan. It's very well made and does exactly what the filmakers wanted to achieve, but it is cruel, savage, bloody and sad. Patricia Arquette is great in Stigmata, and Gabriel Byrne is OK too. It's about what Jesus thinks of the Roman Catholic Church, more or less. Stir of Echoes stars the real Kevin Bacon, and it's about what happens if you don't dig ghosts. If you haven't seen an intelligent, funny film in a long time, go see The Dinner Game, which was written by the same guy who wrote La Cage aux Folles; it's about 94 minutes.
THE LEONARD BUILDING. This new location of Metro Santa Cruz sometime in October is full of historical material, and I made another mistake in saying that Penniman Title was there once. The Leonard Building is that 1894 building at the corner of Front and Cooper streets. Warren Penniman corrected me and for obvious reasons knew that Penniman Title was located on Locust Street, where the new parking garage now sits, until 1952. They then moved to the Moore Building on Plaza Lane, as Warren sez, "right next to United Cigar," a great tobacco and newspaper store that was where that optometrist is now. United Cigar was a true Santa Cruz landmark, and very fondly remembered by all us old timers.
It was Santa Cruz Land Title Company in the Leonard Building, according to Warren. He also added that Luca Lunch, a famous local watering hole, was in the Leonard Building. Tom Kisling, landlord of the Leonard Building, states that Western Title Insurance, then Redding Title Company, then Schlotzky's deli was there until the earthquake. After the earthquake, it was American Savings, which merged with Washington Mutual Bank. Metro Santa Cruz will probably print up all this history and add any historic photos, if we can find any, and do a wall display for the new offices.
JAZZ NOTES II. Donny McCaslin, son of Don McCaslin of Warmth fame, will be playing with Kyle Eastwood's group at the Monterey Jazz Festival on Saturday, Sept. 18. Donny just finished his second CD, and Dad Don is still holding forth at Severino's Thursday through Saturday nights and jams as usual at the Wharf House out on the Capitola Wharf on Sundays.
THE NEW NICKELODEON. As you've probably heard by now, The Nickelodeon is hoping to open another theatre in the old Movie 1 & 2 building on Front Street. This would allow them to show even more "art" films, plus documentaries, classic films, short subjects and others we see getting awards but that never play here. They need parking space for the theatre and are angling to get that rental/used car lot right at the corner of Front and Laurel by the bridge where the hot dog stand used to be. This seems like a fine idea, but it needs support from the city to get the parking spaces.
GREAT BUMPER STICKER. Hiya Swanhuyser saw this one, and it definitely deserves some kind of award: "Give me Ambiguity or give me something else."
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John Alexander "Andy" Messersmith (born August 6, 1945 in Toms River, New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was the 12th overall pick of the 1966 amateur draft by the California Angels. During a 12-year baseball career, Messersmith pitched for the California Angels (1968–72), Los Angeles Dodgers (1973–75 and 1979), Atlanta Braves (1976–77) and the New York Yankees (1978).
Messersmith is most famous for his role in the historic 1975 Seitz decision which led to the downfall of Major League Baseball's reserve clause and ushered in the current era of free agency. It began when Messersmith went to spring training in 1975 and began negotiating his 1975 contract. He asked for a no-trade clause which the Dodgers refused. According to author John Helyar, in The Lords of the Realm, Messersmith was also deeply offended by general manager Al Campanis "inject(ing) a personal issue" into the talks (it "cut so deeply with him," Helyar has written, that Messersmith since has never been able to bring himself to disclose or discuss it), and the pitcher refused to deal with anyone lower than team president Peter O'Malley.
He also pitched 1975 without a contract, leading the National League in complete games and shutouts and finishing second in earned run average with 2.29, not to mention winning a Gold Glove (his second) as the league's best-fielding pitcher. Messersmith and Dave McNally were the only two players in 1975 playing on the one year reserve clause in effect at the time, technically; McNally's season ended early due to injuries and he returned home, intending to retire, but agreeing to players' union director Marvin Miller's request that he sign onto the Messersmith grievance in case Messersmith ended up signing a new deal with the Dodgers before the season ended.
"It was less of an economic issue at the time than a fight for the right to have control over your own destiny," Messersmith told The Sporting News, looking back on his decision a decade later. "It was a matter of being tired of going in to negotiate a contract and hearing the owners say, 'OK, here's what you're getting. Tough luck'."
Messersmith and McNally won their case before arbitrator Peter Seitz, who was fired by the owners the day afterward. McNally followed through on his intention to retire but Messersmith signed a three-year, $1 million deal with the Atlanta Braves. Among other things, then-Braves owner Ted Turner suggested the nickname "Channel" for Messersmith and jersey number 17, in order to promote the television station that aired Braves games. Major League Baseball quickly nixed the idea.
Messersmith struggled trying to live up to his new contract and was sold to the New York Yankees after the 1977 season, having gone 16-15 in two seasons with the Braves, the second marred by injuries. The Yankees released him after an injury plagued 1978 season and he signed, ironically, with the Dodgers. Ironically again, when the Dodgers signed him for that final go-round, they gave him the very thing their first refusal drove him toward testing and defeating the old reserve system: a no-trade clause. But the injuries and stress as the reserve clause's conqueror had taken too much toll; Messersmith pitched in only 11 games for the 1979 Dodgers, going 2-4 with a 4.90 ERA, and retired after the Dodgers released him. He currently coaches baseball at Cabrillo College. Messersmith's earned run average of 2.861 is the fifth lowest among starting pitchers whose careers began after the advent of the Live Ball Era in 1920, behind only Hoyt Wilhelm (2.52), Whitey Ford (2.75), Sandy Koufax (2.76), and Jim Palmer (2.856).
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Marshall, Mo. (January 20, 2015)- Two members of the Missouri Valley College men's soccer team, and Head Coach Vladimir Simic, were recognized at the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., last week... More
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Viking Men's Soccer Earns Regional Awards
Marshall, Mo. (December 17, 2014)- The No. 8 Missouri Valley College men's soccer team has earned a number of regional honors from the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America. Viking student-athletes were selected to the All-Region team, earned academic honors and Head Coach Vladimir Simic earned a coaching honor for the 2014 season... More
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Viking Men's Soccer Finishes Season Ranked No. 8
Marshall, Mo. (December 10, 2014)- The Missouri Valley College men's soccer team came in at the No. 8 ranking NAIA Men's Soccer Coaches' Postseason Top 25 Poll, which was released Wednesday. The Vikings moved up one spot from the final regular season ranking released last month... More
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Beneit Leads Three Vikings on Men's Soccer All-America Team
Marshall, Mo. (December 8, 2014)- Three members of the No. 9 Missouri Valley College men's soccer team have been named to the 2014 NAIA Men's Soccer All-America Team announced Monday. The three selections are the most for the men's program in one year... More
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Viking Men's Soccer Holds Champions of Character Clinic
Marshall, Mo. (December 4, 2014)- The Missouri Valley College men's soccer team traveled to Delray Beach, Fla., this week to play in the 2014 Men's Soccer National Championship. As part of the trip, the team held a Champions of Character soccer clinic for youth in the Delray Beach area... More
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Properly managing a drawing is essential to being productive in AutoCAD. In this course, author Jeff Bartels concentrates on the Autodesk AutoCAD tools and features dedicated to organizing and editing geometry. The course covers making selections, creating and adjusting layers, identifying objects with hatch patterns, and scaling, exploding, and joining elements. It also includes lessons on creating fillets and chamfers, copying existing objects into rectangular or circular patterns, and accessing specialized tools that make measurements and calculations a lot easier.
In the lesson, we are going to learn how to cut our work into half, or double our productivity; however you want to look at it. Specifically we'll be talking about the Mirror command. Mirror is another tool that allows us to copy geometry. These copies are special though, in that they are a reflection of the original. On my screen I've drawn one half of a car, this car is symmetrical. I've also drawn the centerline or my line of symmetry. Mirror is a great tool to use anytime you have symmetrical geometry, because you only have to draw one side, mirror will produce the other side for you.
To finish my car, I going to come up to the Modify panel and launch the Mirror command. I will then select the geometry I'd like to copy, or mirror. I will press Enter when I'm finished. Now I need to identify two points on my line of symmetry or my mirror line. I'll grab the endpoint on the right side of my line, and then I'll come over and grab the endpoint on the left. Finally, do you want to delete the source objects? You don't have to keep them. I am going to press Enter to accept the default, because I like to keep my original geometry, and you can see my car is finished.
As you can see the whole trick to using the Mirror command is identifying two points on that line of symmetry. Now that we understand how mirror works, let's try and use it in a practical example. I am going to zoom out and I'll pan the drawing up. On my screen I have a drawing of a small hotel room. I am going to zoom in on the bedroom area first. Over here on the left side of the bed I've drawn a nightstand and a lamp. I'd like to create a copy of this geometry on the right side of the bed. This is a perfect opportunity to use Mirror.
I'll come up and launch the Mirror command, and I'll use a Window selection to select my geometry. I'll press Enter when I am finished. I don't have a physical line that represents my mirror line. I actually don't need one I can grab the Object Snaps. My mirror line can be identified by grabbing the midpoint at the foot of the bed, and the midpoint at the top of the bed. I'll press Enter when I'm finished, and you can see I've created a perfect reflected copy. Let's take the concept even further.
I am going to Zoom out, since this geometry is part of a hotel floor plan, chances are the room to the south of this one is a mirrored copy of the original room. Let's use the Mirror command to create the adjoining room. First thing I'm going to do is create my mirror line or my line of symmetry. That line will run right down the middle of the south wall. To make this visual, I'm going to draw that line. I'll do that by launching the Line command, and I'm going to create my line from the middle of this wall, I will then lock my Ortho, and I'll pull the line out the east side of the room.
When I am finished I will press Escape. Now I would like this line to run all the way through the floor plan. So I'm going to select the line I just drew, I will then hover over this grip on the left side and I'll choose Lengthen. And I will drag this line out to the west side of the room. When I am finished, I'll press Escape. Let's do one more thing, when I mirror this geometry, I don't need any of this geometry to the south of my mirror line. So we'll trim it off. To do that I'll launch the Trim command, I'll select my mirror line as my cutting object and press Enter, and I'd like to trim this line work, and this line work.
When I am finished I'll press Escape. Now let's zoom out, and we'll create the room next door. I'll launch the Mirror command, and I'll select the floor plan, I'll press Enter when I am finished, I would then select the endpoint on the right side of my mirror line, and I'll come over and select the endpoint on the left side. And I'll press Enter to keep the original objects. Finally, I don't need this centerline anymore, so I'll select this and press Delete to remove it from the drawing.
Anytime you are working with symmetrical geometry, consider using the Mirror command. When used properly, it can quite literally cut your work in half.
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Yesterday afternoon brought some pretty severe thunderstorms: torrential downpours, hail, lightening, the works. It was a lot of rain – based on the way that empty buckets and the kiddie pool were overflowing I'd estimate that it wasn't far off the 40 – 80mm Montreal received. When I went out to pick this morning everything was very squishy and the pathways were all flooded. I managed to pick, and plant the one bed that I actually prepared properly in the fall, but I've pretty much left the existing garden alone. I think it will take a few days to dry out.
The technician arrived and was able to solve the left tine not engaging problem pretty quickly. Apparently I'd managed to put a shear pin into the tines but not into the tiller. I'm not sure how to describe it, except perhaps "design flaw". The technician agreed that if a woman had designed the tiller it would probably be a lot easier to change the shear bolts and would likely work a lot better in general.
He replaced both bolts with tougher ones and I took the tiller out to the field to test it out. The pin broke off within 75 feet of tilling (25 feet of which were on the same 50 foot pass.) The technician was surprised and said he had to see this for himself. So he replaced the pin again and tried tilling himself. He managed to get across about 6 times.
The technician's conclusion was that the tiller really can't deal with rocks and that our soil is so rocky the tiller will really only work well after years of removing rocks. I have no interest in repeatedly tilling the soil season after season. I really wanted a tiller to help with turning sod into garden. I really think that the salesman shouldn't have sold it to me. The technician commented that the salespeople at the Sears stores are not well qualified to sell tillers and may as well be selling clothing. I'm thinking that along with Craftsman, I may actually write to the store who sold the machine.
After he left, I was able to till a bit more (in my super soggy soil that I really wouldn't have started to work except that I wanted to test the tiller while the technician was there to fix it). Hopefully I'll be able to go back over it as it dries out and kill the grass/weeds off in time to plant squash, cucumbers & melons. It's getting close to my 100 days of good growing, but worst case I'll row cover them in the fall.
First CSA Harvest
I harvested greens, onions, and an herbal bouquet for my first CSA basket. This was two weeks ahead of schedule, but I'm a little concerned that in a few weeks there won't be much if the soil doesn't dry out enough to get summer veggies planted soon.
1 – Lettuces & spinach
2 – Herbal bouquet (winter savory, thyme, chives blossoms, and tarragon)
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blurdom wrote:
Oh, wow! So sorry to hear about the tiller woes. Your greens are looking great, though!
glgardener wrote:
we are being told that we are to get possibly 40mm of rain starting tonight and tomorrow. I did do a bit of a water on the things that were freshly planted just in case it bypasses us. It often does.
I love the look of freshly picked produce sitting in a bowl! :-)
flowerweaver wrote:
I feel your pain! We can't till here for the same reason, that's why we went straight to raised beds.
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What's the spec's of the bolts that he gave you? Did he give them a grade number, perhaps a designation to ask or look for that might be stamped on the head of the bolt?
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They're grade 8 bolts. The local hardware/country store seemed to think I'd need to visit like an auto shop or other speciality retailer to find them. I think there are five marks on the head, whereas the ones I'm able to get have no marks on the head.
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Ah, tough ones then. That's a big jump in shear strength, strength full stop! The ungraded ones are bottom of the range and I can see why they would have failed so easily, the manufacturer has erred well on the side of caution; either that or the gearbox is crap. Seeing as the gearbox has survived to-date then it seems to be up to the task.
Yes, automotive or specialist (bolt shop) would be more likely to have them, as stock lines in fact. They'd also be able to give you metric equivalents. I'm sure the bolt hole isn't too exact and has some wriggle room – 6mm fits a 1/4 hole, 8mm is as near as dammit to 5/16 so should fit in a sloppy toleranced hole, but 10mm might struggle fitting a 3/8" hole. I'm guessing it would be 1/4" or maybe 5/16". (You're Canadian and thus metric?)
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lol.. we're both metric and imperial. Mostly imperial for construction, cooking, heights & weights. Food prices are posted in pounds and kilos, speed limits are km/h, temperatures are celsius. We're also home to what our American cousins refer to as "those weird screws" (the robertson – most easy to work with!)
I think the hole is 5/16 but I have 1/4 bolts because they fit the attachment I have for my drill. Once I use them up & find a bigger driver for the drill, I'm going to get 5/16 sizes. I will have to check at an auto shop at some point in the city and perhaps they'll have something in between. I was a bit concerned with using stronger bolts, but given that their technician put them in, I think it's okay.
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ERGO is pleased to welcome a man of wealth and taste. A man whose likeness graced the covers of three out of four skate mags in one month. A man who can cook one hell of a sausage and sees absolutely no shame in treating himself to a pickle. A man amongst the select few skaters to ever execute a "Fall Guy", and whose "Spiderman" nickname leaves comic book enthusiasts wondering why they are too fat to land a kickflip. A man known to spend entire nights in the smoking room at the Hemlock alone. And quite possibly the only skater to ever pull of a Neil Diamond song, matching the soft riffs of guitar and sweet hum of Neil's voice with some damn fine skating.


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Despite the slowdown, the $195,000 median home selling price in the Twin Cities held steady, and was up 13 percent from a year ago.
Jeff Schultz, an agent with ReMax in Waconia, recently visited a new listing to pick up keys, install a lock-box and have the sellers sign paperwork. New listings are not keeping pace with home sales, resulting in a reduction of the inventory of houses for sale.
The holiday season is not the most wonderful time of the year for Twin Cities real estate, but the seasonal dip in home sales got an extra kick last month from a decline in the number of bargain-priced foreclosures and short sales.
Buyers closed on 3,760 new homes, down 5.9 percent from a year ago, the monthly report from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors showed Wednesday.
Foreclosures and short sales accounted for 22.1 percent of all closings, down from 35.6 percent a year ago, the report said. New listings, meanwhile, fell 5.3 percent.
Even though there were fewer transactions, the median sales price held steady at $195,000 for the third straight month, and was up 13.4 percent from a year ago.
"I think it's a healthy sign that the median sale price is showing a year-over-year increase," said Herb Tousley, director of real estate programs at the University of St. Thomas. "While the November and December housing reports may not be terribly exciting, because there's not much activity at this time of year, I expect improvement after the holidays and heading into spring."
In a separate report, the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors noted that last year's November data showed a jump that broke the seasonal pattern. It said the drop in home closings and new listings this November "are not proportionately out of line with the typical Twin Cities market's seasonality."
The Minneapolis Realtors report said that the real estate market will be stronger in the long run as foreclosures and short sales decline.
"Some might claim that the recovery is stalling, but the reality is that job growth is gaining momentum and there are fewer distressed properties being listed and sold than at any point in the past five years," said Emily Green, the Minneapolis Realtors association president-elect.
Mike Hunstad, an agent with Counselor Realty of Coon Rapids and president-elect of the St. Paul association, said it will take another two to three years for distressed homes to be washed out of the system. "With the way interest rates are holding, I think traditional sales can make up for the diminishing sales of distressed homes," he said.
Jeff Schulz, a real estate agent with Re/Max Advantage Plus who concentrates on the western suburbs, said he expects more sellers will emerge after the holidays. "In the first and second quarters of 2014, we'll see traditional sales numbers increase again," he said.
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A woman has been arrested in connection with a man's death Sunday evening on Bloodvein First Nation.
RCMP were called to a disturbance at a house party shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday.
When they arrived, they found an injured man. He was rushed to the nursing station where he died later that night.
The incident is being investigated as a homicide. Charges have not yet been laid.
Both the suspect and victim were residents of Bloodvein and knew each other, police said.
Bloodvein First Nation is located about 200 kilometres north of Winnipeg on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg.
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